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What’s New in BG-Map 2015b
May, 2015
What’s New in BG-Map 2015b and How
to Access the New Features
Note: The User’s Manual and Help Screens will provide more detail.
Here is a summary.
Create New Plants and Accessions Using Your Web Browser
What it Does
This new feature of Web-VQF, the BG-Map web interface, allows you to use the
web browser in your tablet or desktop computer to add new BG-BASE plants and
accessions. You must be online to use this feature.
How to Access
In Web-VQF settings, go to the “Admin”
tab, and enable this feature by checking the
box “Allow Adding Plants at Staff Names
Level.”
Then go to the “General” tab and update the
list of plant sources.
If you haven’t done so already, in BG-Map,
go to Tools/Options/Create BG-BASE Plant
Options, and set the parameters for how new
accession numbers are to be formatted. See
the help screen or the BG-Map user’s manual for details.
You are now ready to create new plants or accessions using the web browser in
your desktop or tablet computer.
Using the Staff Interface, access a plant at the taxon level. Below the list of
existing plants, click the link: “Create New Accessions or Plants.” The form
shown below will appear:
Choose an option:
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New Accession and Plant - Enter a new accession number with qualifier or
click “Find” to find the next available accession number.
New Plant From Existing Accession – Enter an existing accession number
of this taxon with a new qualifier. Or, click the down arrow, and select an
existing accession, and then click “Find” to find the next available qualifier.
New Accession Only - Enter a new accession number without qualifier or
click “Find” to find the next available accession number.
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Fill in the accession and plant information. The fields marked with asterisks are
required. Those without are optional. When entering a Plant Source, you can
enter the source number only or click the “browse” button and choose from the
list of plant sources. Enter your BG-BASE login name and password, and save.
If you refresh the screen, the new plant will appear in the list of existing plants.
Enter Field Checks Using Your Web Browser Without the Need for Garden
Notepad
What it Does
Using the Staff Interface of Web-VQF, you can enter basic field check
information for any existing plant without the need to use Garden Notepad. Data
you enter here is transferred immediately into BG-BASE without further action.
You must be online to use this feature.
How to Access
In Web-VQF settings, go to the “Admin” tab,
and enable this feature by checking the box
“Allow Field Checks at Staff Plants Level.”
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If you haven’t done so already, create a list of frequently used check note
phrases. If you have Garden Notepad, in BG-Map you can go to Field Data/Edit
Garden Notepad Checknote Phrases. If you do not have Garden Notepad, use a
plain text editor like Windows Notepad to create a text file with phrases entered
one per line. Save it to the main bgmapwin folder on your server as:
\bgmapwin\ECM\Web\GNP\GNP202\Lists\Phrases.txt
You are now ready to enter field checks using the web browser in your desktop
or tablet computer.
Using the Staff Interface, access a plant at the individual plant level. Below the
list of previous field checks, click the link: “Enter New Field Checks.” The form
shown below will appear.
Fill in the information as listed. You can use the “Phrase Picker” to enter
frequently used check note phrases without the need to type them. Enter your
BG-BASE login name and password and save.
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Print Phenology Reports
What it Does
You can print a Phenology Report that displays the flowering or fruiting records
of a list of plants in a Defined View, Genus, Location or a list of Plants or Names
in a BG-BASE Saved List. To access this feature, you must have Web-VQF, the
BG-Map web interface.
How to Access
In BG-Map, go to Print/Phenology Report.
You can print a report showing flowering or fruiting in PDF or HTML format.
For complete details, click Help.
Select Normal or High Resolution Images in Garden Notepad Plus
What it Does
You can select the resolution of the images recorded by Garden Notepad Plusnormal: 960 x 720 pixels or high: 1920 x 1440 pixels. Note that iPads older than
iPad 3 are not capable of creating the higher resolution images.
How to Access
On the Garden Notepad home
screen, select “Normal” or “High”
image resolution.
Enter Multiple DBH Values for Multi-Trunked Trees
What it Does
For multi-trunked trees, you can enter up to 6 individual DBH values using either
Garden Notepad Plus or BG-Map. Individual values can be retrieved and
displayed in plant lists and reports. A single composite value, based on the sum
of the trunk areas is calculated and entered into BG-BASE as the DBH.
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How to Access
In Garden Notepad Plus
Select a number of trunks. Then enter the corresponding number of separate
DBH values in the spaces provided. If the number of trunks is set to “>6”, enter
6 values.
In BG-Map
Go to Tools/Horticultural Management/Enter
Additional PLANTS Data. Or click this icon.
Enter an accession number with Qualifier, or use the search function. Click
“Enter Field Check Data”, and enter your BG-BASE user name and password.
Under “DBH”, enter multiple values separated by forward slashes "/" - the
number of values must match the number of trunks as entered, except, for
number of trunks = ">6", enter 6 values.
Retrieving the Data and Using it in Reports
To view the multiple DBH values for any plant,
go to Tools/Horticultural Management/Enter
Additional PLANTS Data. Or click this icon.
Enter an accession number with Qualifier, or use the search function. Click
“Multi-Trunks” tab to view the data.
To include the multi-trunk data in plant lists and reports, add the “multi-trunk”
fields to a Plant List Format.
Exclude Locations from Garden Notepad Plus
What it Does
It allows you to exclude unused or obsolete BG-BASE locations from the
selection list in Garden Notepad Plus.
How to Access
In BG-Map, go to Field Data\Export BGBASE Label Types\Container and Die Why
Codes. Choose the option “Exclude Locs.”
Select one or more locations to exclude, and
then export the data. Then, in Garden Notepad
Plus, download data.
BG-Map Botanical Garden Mapping System
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For up to date information, visit the BG-Map Users Support Website at www.bg-map.com/userdata
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